[palmer]

Net neutrality is a pseudonym for unlimited streaming. If you want unlimited streaming, particularly HD, from a service of your choice, your provider won't have the BW to support yours and everyone else's. So they will throttle. They could also push their own streaming services but that's a separate issue.

Anything else is simply a red herring. if you want some content from some provider there's absolutely nothing your provider can do to stop that. Just ask the people in China with the worst, most censorious provider on the planet, expect maybe North Korea. They get the content they want through Tor. However they can't do streaming video since that can be throttled just like what your provider would do if you are overusing bandwidth.

Then there is the "I paid for the BW" argument. No you didn't. You don't pay enough to get your own HD streaming connection through the network

[Yaelle]

I wish I understood net neutrality. My gamer sons think it’s very important. I tend not to trust a government, not that I trust corporations either. Which is the most freedom oriented way for the consumer?

[CurlyDave]

...Then there is the "I paid for the BW" argument. No you didn't. You don't pay enough to get your own HD streaming connection through the network...

There are some people who do pay for the bandwidth.

When I lived in the city, I could get "standard" cable modem speeds for one price and for a higher price I could get 25Mbps. The extra speed was worth the relatively minor cost.

Now I live out in the sticks and the best I can do is microwave internet. They still have a tiered pricing plan, even though they do not like to sell the highest one. But I am still paying for my bandwidth.